want to spice up your gaming setup look no further than Tik Tok they've got
thousands no millions of videos that show you how to create the best setup
around it's just that some of them are
better than others fear not though we're going to take one for the team and test
out the best tech hacks starting with
this one from Janelle and Kate with over
883 th000
likes why no why
why no no we
not
no it's Tik Tok Linus you need the views
oh God they make it look easy also you're not doing anywhere near enough
look at how much they have up there well I mean that seems like a lot look Alex I
don't think there's any right way to do this but there is the right way to tell
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which we're going to have linked down below I'm going to go ahead and say that
this Tik Tok exists only to laugh at you because you ruined your keyboard
remember there's no wrong way to do this you think I need more glue well she has
it between all the function keys and stuff too I have it between the function
keys I again I cannot emphasize this
enough there's no correct way to do this so that's some nice glitter really fine
yeah it's really nice uh I need the next step in the instructions ah it's
everywhere and she said to
tap the glue will protect it I
think
okay oh no
yep that's exactly what I thought was going to happen oh that's so bad yeah um
it looks somewhat
oh nailed it I rate this Tech Tik Tok
zero out of 10 and I sincerely hope this is the worst one we're doing today as a
YouTube Native I've got to say coming over to Tik Tok there are some really
fascinating videos where they're clearly designed just to keep the viewers
attention even if not nothing of value is being added but not everything on Tik
Tok is intentionally bad some of it's just bad like this monitor painting
video from nikolski that's not you don't want that
on your hands wait wipe down the screen wait she's not going to paint the actual
panel is she the real way to do this Tik Tok is to take the actual monitor itself
off of the stand disassemble it which
should take no more than 5 to 10 minutes with most standard monitors paint it
then put it back together you may have noticed this monitor got a little bit
mangled in a previous video we should still be able to get it apart and back
together so the only thing that this affects for what we're doing today is
that you may actually have an easier time getting things apart than I
am this is Linus Tech tips not linest
talk ticks beautiful one thing she got
right was shaking up the paint can something she got wrong was her work
area you always want to be in a well
ventilated workspace when you're working with paint or really any other aerosols
ideally she should have been outside definitely not in her bedroom although
the paint fumes could be good for creativity uh o I do not want to get
paint on this always important keep the
can moving you're far better off doing more
light coats than fewer heavy coats in terms of getting a decent finish
what could go wrong oh look at
that for the best results you should follow the guide we did a few years ago
where you disassemble the monitor sand Prime paint and clear coat for a
professional finish but if all you want is a quick way to change the color of
your display this will do the trick or
if you don't like painting at all there's an alternative as shown by Tik
tocker flex and Flora and you can use
vinyl for a lot more as shown by e DIYs
this is one we don't even need to try out to give it an eight or maybe even a
9 out of 10 because it's something that we've been doing for years here's the
table in our build corner which has a marble vinyl wrap over top of it and I
bet most of you didn't even notice as you can see it's not the most durable
thing in the world and you get you know Nicks and scratches and scuffs all over
it compared to an actual marble countertop but unlike a marble
countertop when you get sick of it or if it gets too scuffed up you can just peel
it off and redo it the video was a little weird though you notice the audio
was just explaining a feature of Tik Tok and had nothing to do with the hack
whatsoever did you know you don't have to tap the profile picture to get to the
person's profile all you have to do is swipe left that's how tight they got to
edit these things really you don't have enough attention span for me to talk
about and show the same thing at the same time what about vinyl on your
computer though if this video from Grim collection is anything to go by it can
look sick ooh and we've got two different
kinds of film here we are looking at
either mirror or
rainbow I really really want to do rainbow social media person says that
you know the mirror is more true to the original I want to see
Rainbow I don't know it's not as rainbowy as I was hoping yeah I was
really hoping for a lot more rainbow it's more like your aunt's shower yeah
when the light gets emitted through it's going to look rainbow oh okay hold on a
second oh there we go okay all right
it's in uh okay so I actually have never applied one of these before good luck
that's it that's all you guys are giving me our sponsor vrl tech asked to be
included in the Tik Tock hacks uh I suspect ruining their side panel was not
what they had in mind it's a perfectly nice computer already and this probably
isn't necessary I mean you know I'm kind of
I'm kind of getting oh gosh uh oh crap you got this I put it
on the wrong side we're a little short
here and to think without Tik Tok I
wouldn't be having all this fun Tik Tok middle-aged man struggles to apply
rainbow vinyl I am not middle-aged yet just cut
out all the other stuff and show this that was a test fit uh now we're going
to put water on the surface and on the vinyl to uh show you how it's done
properly we were seeing how many of you are going to comment before actually
watching the whole video here we go
and oh came off a little bit there that's okay
wow I think that might be our first ever 10 out of 10 V Tech offers loads of
options on their site with different fans coolers gpus RAM storage Etc the
standard Helios comes in the dynamic so it's a larger build but they they sent
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there is something for everyone and if there's something that you want that is
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customer they just need to let customer service know and they will take care of
it the 200 customers who use code Linus can get $100 off their PC from vrl Tech
using the link down below if you're not satisfied with tape just on your monitor
and computer though tidal bomb has got you
C this mouse apparently is the best one
for drag clicking according to competitive Minecrafters I had to steal
this from Mar and that's a thing competitive Minecrafting I I guess so
okay the cone XP where's our tape at
before you do this see how fast you can click without it I was able to get 53
that was my record 53 without this right
there's no way I can do 53 you got this I was a drummer for many
years a I'm not going to do it oh my God
okay I'm not entirely sure I even understand oh I'm going to have paint
glitter and gold Sharpie on my fingers by the end of
this what are we sure gold Sharpie is the same as silver Sharpie
I have a silver one upstairs I don't how would that make a difference there we go
wa are you doing it what 11.6 clicks per second dang it
actually works I tried this you just need to dry more I don't know I actually tried this for like 45 minutes yesterday
and couldn't get it and now it's just working
okay okay this is another n out of 10
this is a sick sick hack you might have noticed that up until now other than
applying a couple of stickers we haven't really deified our setup but don't worry
we're going to show you that now in the Tik Tock
Way by not showing you at all oh hey
look our monitors bag actually looks not
bad for a 20-minute job I mean it didn't
do anything for the waviness let's see how it compares to our Tik tocker
version oo I don't know if you're getting info but you're ooh
oh oh
no no
oh oh you should not use rubbing alcohol on
a
screen one out of 10 ours is way
better our next Tik Tok hat is sort of the opposite of what we've done so far
the silent reviewer shows us rather than how to apply stickers to things how to
remove them but he's using hand sanitizer and
the benefit is that it won't have any smell I think the last one that they
used was like mineral oil or medicated oil so I mean it would be an improvement
over that but I would think we would just use 99% isopropyl alcohol either
way we're going to give the hand sand izer a shot who knows maybe this is an
outstanding Tik Tock hack we've got some residue over here uh what why don't we
pull off a let's pull off a sticker and then we'll do half of the residue with
Isle and we'll do half of it with hand sanitizer this is actually the perfect
example of the kind of thing that you'd want to remove with this method overall pretty good sticker came off okay but
there's definitely some residue all right here we go hand
sanitizer man if you don't want residue you obviously shouldn't be using hand
sanitizer yes they have alcohol in them but they're also full of like you know
aloe and scents and things that people
want to keep their hands from getting dry as opposed to just alcohol In
fairness though that did work reasonably well the question is just if you're
trying to put alcohol on something where'd it go why not just put alcohol
on something so holy Alex no it's not it
isn't no it's not better it's not better
what's in you purified water carbomer
glycerin oh
interesting that actually works great it could just be as simple as having a
thicker consistency making it so that the alcohol doesn't just evaporate away
so quickly and almost gives you like a little bit more scrubbing
power but it legitimately works better
all right eight out of 10 eight out of 10 I can't believe it not what I was
expecting ing let's see what we've got next Carter PC's who I follow I have no
idea who this is but hey I'm not complaining can these
Birds please shut up I'm doing he's talking into a lint roller you know that
but anyway if anyone from LTT is watching this a few things I should mention uh first of all I am very
against cable ties which might be sacriligious Atlantis Media Group but
you know team zip tie all the way and second of all I know lonus loves Brown
switch wait what hold on who does this guy think he is against against cable
ties Pro zip ties lus we get to play a
game do we unfollow him now
oh the power is in your hands hold on I
haven't watched the rest of this okay hold on you know come to think of it
this video was just meant to say thank you for the follow and I just gave him
like four reasons to unfollow me I'm so
stupid okay hold on fun okay Alex do you
want to take the other side sure all right Carter PC you're welcome for the
follow but you're kind of on the chopping block
here you've given us a lot of reasons to unfollow you doesn't like Cherry Browns
actually that's not that controversial these days I'm not going to count that hate cable ties
though very upset cannot count gave two
reasons to unfollow says he gave four absolutely this this right here this is
bad cannot count means we can't count on
you why did we follow in the first place I actually have no idea he referred to
us as Michael Jordan I didn't hear that that wasn't a different Tik Tok but he
referred to you in Jay's 2 sense as Michael Jordan I hate it when Bonafide
Tech YouTubers come to Tik Tok like jay2 sensor lonus or scattervolt for example
see I'm a youth basketball coach and I'm teaching these 9-year-olds you know
elbow in flick your wrist blah blah blah and then Michael Jordan walks into the
gym and starts talking these kids like okay you should also do this this and
this that's Michael Jordan I learned from him all right that's a neutral
that's a neutral right there good content though for Tik
talk all right he keeps the follow he
keeps the follow next up we've got several products that you need to buy
which are definitely real things that this person actually uses and not just
Amazon affiliate bait five helpful gadgets
from button for your Zoom meetings with one touch you're able to mute and unmute
and open and close the video not a dedicated Buton place over the camera
don't want wait why are you putting a sticker on there like that going to rub
against the bottom of your next is this portable charger with three buil-in
cables and you can plug this directly into the wall to charge what even was
that that I just looked at this one we actually got oh good doesn't charge your airpods
wait it doesn't does it oh no it just holds I
don't see Su I thought that your case went on it just holds your airpods
wouldn't it also just deplete the battery cuz it would still be connected when it's in that yeah no I think they
should go into standby also these are going to get lost five sure like there's
no way I don't need an iPhone and airpods to know that an airpods holder
that doesn't charge your airpods is
stupid rechargeable hand warmer for
gamers oh up in just 30 seconds and no we're
not going to use hot water cuz don't do that instead cuz don't do cuz don't do
that why not instead here's a cheap hand
warmer that you can buy on Amazon and it's really cheap as
well oh good a cheap hand warmer that is
really cheap as well is this only 20 bucks and two pieces yeah uh 5,000
milliamp hours even just as a as a battery Bank this
might make sense assuming that capacity is real it's getting warm I can feel the
current flowing Alex I'm giving this one a two out of 10 if you're a real gamer
you know how to warm your hands like that now it's time for some
software hacks do this so your friends think you are
hacking you do not need to full screen
that okay and I don't need this audio
uhhuh that's just a list of the directories on the
computer I really love this one because
it's so much worse than just going to hacker typer and also so much more
difficult well we're supposed to do it right yeah why you change the color
again color a
okay oh I spelled color the uh Canadian
wa whoops wow I'm hacking I'm hacking the
main frame the real way to do this is to go to hackertyper.com and start hacker
typing tell me you're a hacker without telling me you're a hacker I want to
read this New York Times article but it requires a paid
account change.com to.com doand yell I'm in shut up does
this actually work is it that easy cuz I've been like going
into incognito mode and then just switching to my mobile network anytime I
need to read something I honestly haven't verified
this cuz it's so easy and so stupid if it just works just a period just put a
period in there is that it that can't be
right no that did not work that didn't
work I'm not surprised but I am disappointed they apparently have
patched this 0 out of 10 hack fun fact
about Samsung
phones hold on a second I can get a picture of a chihuaha on my phone hold
on a second hold on a this is
lifechanging asterisk pound zero asterisk
pound whoa
hold on how do I get the dog I want the dog I click the image test oh I got the
dog yeah I me that's pretty useful Okay so
we've got like a QC menu like a diagnostic menu on my Samsung phone I
have never accessed this before I'm giving this one a solid eight and a half
I like it black now with 100% more oh God how do I
how do I get out of
oh my lock button's not even doing anything I'm downgrading you this is now
a six out of 10 hack try at your own risk oh hold on emergency SOS what the
no stop stop okay I like it eight and a half out of
10 hi I'm cin I'm a cyber security data privacy and protection expert and I want
to show you what Google knows let's go you're going to type in this website
settings. goole.com let's go oh I should
do it on my phone then hey M Okay add
topics for you vehicle parts and
accessories games role playing games massively multiplayer online games a
theme Here Motor Vehicles home audio and video laptop computers industrial goods
and Manufacturing video game consoles mobile phones accessories shooter games
web design and development web hosting and flashlight apps okay we probably
don't need flashlight apps how about you it's got to be more car stuff than me
what I found interesting in mine is that it's completely different
from my work to my personal account
right like personal account it's like incomes high for some reason my other
one is like medium high okay they both think I'm a
homeowner which isn't true small employer small employer yeah oh like
that you work for yeah oh okay ouch male
35 to 44 oh my God I'm in that bracket now married High income bachelor's
degree nope not enough industry to
figure out my info and thinks I work for a large
employer nice you know I think the
takeaway is you can tell them which information you want them to have which
is nice and finally a customer of ours
brought us their gaming PC and told us that it's having some issues this is a repair sh gam and low FPS after booting
into Call of Duty I did notice some FPS drops and a couple stutters generally
when this happens the first thing you want to do is look for any graph driver
updates when you're updating your graphics drivers don't click the express installation click custom and click this
clean install this is going to completely remove your old graphics driver from the system and reinstall the
new one theer this is a pretty good uh this is a pretty good we're going try a
bi this is pretty good Tech advice recomended if you're not having any
trouble with your yeah this is really good seem like it worked yeah n out of
10 10 out of 10 update your drivers update your BIOS great work the part
that got me about this one was that someone brought their PC to a tech
repair shop to update their drivers oh oh yeah oh yeah that man you'd be
surprised if you guys enjoyed this video you might also enjoy Tik Tok hacks part
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